Monday, August 17, 2009

When they offered to send it to us, I was thrilled as I love the game Apples to Apples and this new game is made by the same company! I briefly looked at the game online and just knew Pac would love it and I was right!

He was really excited to start playing but I made him read the directions first so I could see if he could understand the game without me having to explain it to him...

He did! He is 7, and the game says it is meant for ages 7 and up, so I was thrilled that it was simple enough for him to understand right off the bat. You can go here to read the detailed rules if you'd like.

I was really excited to play with him, and LOVED that just the 2 of us could enjoy it together. The competitive game is played with 3 or more players, but mom and child or just 2 children can easily just take turns and have tons of fun giggling together-which is what we did!

This game is GREAT for communication skills, listening skills, and much, much more. The "director" has to tell the artist how to draw what is on the card and get the artist and the other players (if there are any) to guess it. ONLY certain types of words can be used (like positional words, directional words, shape words, etc.) so it makes it tricky! Here's Pac Man drawing while I was directing him...

He had NO CLUE what this was, even though it did indeed look like the picture on the card!!! Do you know what it is?

Here's more examples of a few we did together, he got the others, but did not get grapes!!! I drew the candle and the bag based on his directions.

He really enjoyed being the director, and I loved that he really had to think about how to describe what he was wanting me to draw!

I think you have figured out by now that we LOVE this game, I am so glad we now own it and I will be buying it for gifts in the future, it is that fun! There are 2 levels of pictures in this game-the junior edition, we played the easy level, and the harder level looks challenging enough for me as an adult! They do have an adult version of this game also though!

If you will take a photo of your kid(s) playing this game and post about it and Out of the Box Games on your blog if you are the winner, give yourself an extra entry!!! (also an honor thing)

This Giveaway is open for the Continental US Only!

I will select a winner using Random.org, so be sure you leave a separate comment for each entry, I will also be moderating comments to check that your entries are valid-please be honest!

Contest ENDS August 29th, 2009. Winner will be announced here, and emailed (your email MUST be in each comment/or enabled in blogger). Winner must reply to my email within 48 hours or another winner will be chosen.

Our favorite game for the whole family (especially Daddy) is CADOO. The drawing, acting, sculpting are our favorite parts of the game. Carisa, don't bother counting this as an entry, because we don't qualify. I just wanted to share what our fav game was.

One of my favorite board games is CLUE. This game looks so awesome! Can definetly be used to help kids learn directions. They will also learn that even though they do not always see the clear picture (of what we as parents say, or of what God has in store) they need to not jump ahead but wait for what we or God may be telling them to do. To listen and trust!

I will definitely photograph and blog about my winning entry! L (who is 2) loves playing our games. We let her pretend-play with Sorry and Blokus. She also has her own Hello Kitty cards. We play Go Fish using just red and black since she doesn't know her numbers yet!

Now to say about my favourite board game. Well, I have lots of fav's but for its broad age playability I think it has to be Carcasonne ( http://www.boardgameextras.co.uk/item.php?id=35&name=Carcassonne+Board+Game&cat=1&sub_cat=5&src=gad&gclid=CJ_CjIf0rJwCFUxs4wodzjbLcg ). I like it because the really little ones like just matching up the tiles and making interesting city shapes, but it is interesting & simple to play (although a little complicated to score) from about 7/8 upwards to adult and it is different every time :D - mine all enjoy it.

We love Apples to Apples, too, and my girls LOVE to draw, so this sounds like a game we would really have fun with. Games we also enjoy are Peanut Butter and Jelly (a card game) and Math noodlers. Thanks for running the giveaway! How fun!

One of my favorite games as a child was Perfection. I still enjoy it today. The family I babysit for has three children and games is one of our favorite activities. Our favorites are Kerplunk, UNO, Apples to Apples, and Blink. We have hours of fun just playing games.

Right now our favorite game is Boogle Jr. I loved Boogle as a travel game when I was younger and the boys and I recently found Boogle Jr.. it is great for both boys (1 matches the letters , the other actually tries to spell the word)